Northern Illinois University College of Law will host a Junior Scholars Works-in-Progress conference at Loyola University School of Law on October 5, 2018. This event will offer junior scholars (those who have spent 7 years or fewer as full-time professors) the opportunity to present their works-in-progress, get feedback from their colleagues, and network with other junior scholars from the Chicago area and beyond. Articles may be presented in various stages of development.

The Place is the annual conference for private law junior scholars. The 2018 conference, themed “Public Aspects of Private Law”, will be held at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law on September 26-27, 2018.

Keynote Address by Professor Henry Smith, Harvard Law School.

2018 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – PUBLIC ASPECTS OF PRIVATE LAW. SEPTEMBER 26-27, 2018, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, TORONTO (CANADA)

CALL FOR PAPERS – LOCKETT v. OHIO AT 40 The Center for Constitutional Law at the University of Akron School of Law invites scholars, practitioners, and advocates to submit papers commemorating the United States Supreme Court decision in Lockett v. Ohio, 438 U.S. 586 (1978). Argued by the brilliant Prof. Anthony Amsterdam, the decision laid the framework for narrowing application of the death penalty.

The Anti-Corruption Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), Sciences Po Law School, and the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania are organizing an international symposium on the “Transnationalization of Anti-Corruption Law.”